The BioML research group at Ghent University develops machine learning methods for the life sciences: uncertainty quantification, multi-target prediction, sequence models and probabilistic modelling.https://willemwaegeman.github.io/bioml/https://willemwaegeman.github.io/bioml/news/2026-09-25-welcome-jitse-fiebe/https://willemwaegeman.github.io/bioml/news/2026-09-25-welcome-jitse-fiebe/Two new PhD researchers join the lab, working on AI for agriculture and on uncertainty-aware multimodal learning.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://willemwaegeman.github.io/bioml/news/2025-11-17-phd-lauren-theunissen/https://willemwaegeman.github.io/bioml/news/2025-11-17-phd-lauren-theunissen/Lauren Theunissen defended her thesis "Addressing Uncertainty in Automatic Cell Type Annotation of Single-Cell Transcriptomics Data".Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://willemwaegeman.github.io/bioml/news/2025-09-19-phd-gaetan-de-waele/https://willemwaegeman.github.io/bioml/news/2025-09-19-phd-gaetan-de-waele/Gaetan De Waele defended his thesis "Self-supervised Transformers for Biological Data Modalities".Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://willemwaegeman.github.io/bioml/news/2025-02-07-wuml-2025/https://willemwaegeman.github.io/bioml/news/2025-02-07-wuml-2025/Sebastian Jimenez presented his research on epistemic uncertainty in ensembles and Bayesian neural networks at WUML 2025.Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://willemwaegeman.github.io/bioml/news/2025-01-10-nldl-winter-school/https://willemwaegeman.github.io/bioml/news/2025-01-10-nldl-winter-school/Willem Waegeman gave a tutorial on uncertainty in statistics and machine learning at the Arctic University of Norway.Fri, 10 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://willemwaegeman.github.io/bioml/news/2024-07-25-icml-2024/https://willemwaegeman.github.io/bioml/news/2024-07-25-icml-2024/Mira presented "Is Epistemic Uncertainty faithfully represented by Evidential Deep Learning methods?" at ICML 2024.Thu, 25 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://willemwaegeman.github.io/bioml/news/2024-04-25-phd-nicolas-dewolf/https://willemwaegeman.github.io/bioml/news/2024-04-25-phd-nicolas-dewolf/Nicolas Dewolf defended his thesis on conformal prediction methods for valid uncertainty quantification.Thu, 25 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://willemwaegeman.github.io/bioml/news/2024-03-11-nature-plants/https://willemwaegeman.github.io/bioml/news/2024-03-11-nature-plants/Our framework to verify the legality of wood was published in Nature Plants and supported a Belgian investigation into Russian wood imports.Mon, 11 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://willemwaegeman.github.io/bioml/news/2024-01-19-phd-laure-van-den-bulcke/https://willemwaegeman.github.io/bioml/news/2024-01-19-phd-laure-van-den-bulcke/Laure Van Den Bulcke defended her thesis on DNA metabarcoding and machine learning for impact assessments in the North Sea.Fri, 19 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://willemwaegeman.github.io/bioml/news/2023-11-17-phd-dimitris-iliadis/https://willemwaegeman.github.io/bioml/news/2023-11-17-phd-dimitris-iliadis/Dimitris Iliadis defended his thesis "Automated multi-target prediction with two-branch neural networks".Fri, 17 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://willemwaegeman.github.io/bioml/news/2023-07-14-ecml-pkdd-tutorial/https://willemwaegeman.github.io/bioml/news/2023-07-14-ecml-pkdd-tutorial/A tutorial on aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty in statistics and machine learning at ECML/PKDD 2023 in Torino.Fri, 14 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://willemwaegeman.github.io/bioml/news/2023-06-23-phd-thomas-mortier/https://willemwaegeman.github.io/bioml/news/2023-06-23-phd-thomas-mortier/Thomas Mortier defended his thesis "Efficient algorithms for set-valued prediction in classification".Fri, 23 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://willemwaegeman.github.io/bioml/news/2023-01-18-phd-friederike-mey/https://willemwaegeman.github.io/bioml/news/2023-01-18-phd-friederike-mey/Friederike Mey successfully defended her PhD thesis on synthetic biology, systems biology and machine learning.Wed, 18 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://willemwaegeman.github.io/bioml/news/2022-12-01-wuml-2023/https://willemwaegeman.github.io/bioml/news/2022-12-01-wuml-2023/We are organizing a workshop on Uncertainty in Machine Learning in Ghent in February 2023.Thu, 01 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT